Agenda

I. Blade Servers

II. Benefits of Blade Servers

III. Whats Inside?

IV. Types: Dell & HP

V. Functionality

VI. Conclusion

Why A Blade Server?

More agile & scalable

Less setup & installation time

Less expensive in long-term deployments

Efficient cooling and power consumption

Blade vs. Rack-mount Server

Whats Incside

Power Supplies & 220V Power

9-10 Hot Plug Fans

Redundant Mezzanines

Whats Inside?

Blade Servers (Full or Half Height)

CPU, Memory, Hard Drives

Chassis

Types of Blade Chassis & Servers

Dell M1000e Blade System (10U)

HP C7000 Blade System (10U)

Types of Blade Chassis & Servers

Dell Blade Systems M1000e Enclosure

HP C7000 Blade System Enclosure

Device Bays

Up to sixteen half-height and 8 full height blade

servers

Up to 16 half-height
Up to 8 full-height
Mixed configurations supported

Interconnect Bays

Up to six total I/O modules for three fully

redundant fabrics, featuring Ethernet FlexIO
technology providing on-demand stacking and
uplink scalability.

Up to 8 Interconnect Bays with support for any

I/O fabric

Power

Up to six 2700W hot-plug power supplies

Integrated in Enclosure, 3-Phase or Single Phase

Cooling

M1000e Chassis comes standard with 9 hot

pluggable, redundant fan modules

Centralized redundant fans

Up to 10 Active Cool fans

Management

System Management and Remote Management

Redundant Onboard Administrator - LAN and

serial access

Height

10U enclosure

Rack (10U)

HP Blade System Servers

HP ProLiant BL280c G6

Processor Family
Number of Processors
Processor core Availability
Maximum Memory
Memory Slots
Expansion Slots
Network Controller

Intel Xeon 5600 series

Intel Xeon 5500 series

HP ProLiant BL2x220c G7

Intel Xeon 5600 series

6 or 4 or 2

6 or 4

192 GB

96 GB

12 DDR3 DIMM slots

6 DDR3 DIMM slots

(2) 1GbE NC362i 2 Ports

(1) 10GbE NC543i

Flex-10/QDR IB 1 Port

Maximum Drive Bays

(2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD

Supported Drives

Non-hot plug SAS

Non-hot plug Serial ATA
Non-hot plug SATA SSD

Non-hot plug SFF SATA

Non-hot plug SATA SSD

Storage Controller

(1) Integrated SATA RAID

(1) Integrated SATA

Infrastructure
Management

iLO 2

(1) SFF SATA/SSD

iLO 3 and HP Insight

Foundation

HP Blade System Servers

HP ProLiant BL460c G7
Processor Family

HP ProLiant BL465c G7

HP Proliant BL490c G7 Server

Series

Intel Xeon 5600 series

Intel Xeon 5500 series

AMD Opteron 6100 Series

Intel Xeon 5600 series

6 or 4 or 2

8 or 12

6 or 4

384 GB

512 GB

384 GB

12 DDR3 DIMM slots

16 DDR3 DIMM slots

18 DDR3 DIMM slots

2 I/O expansion mezzanine slots

(1) 10GbE NC553i FlexFabric 2 Ports

(1) 10GbE NC551i

FlexFabric 2 Ports

(1) 10GbE NC553i FlexFabric 2

Ports

(2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD

(2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD

(2) SFF SSD

non-hot plug

Supported Drives

Hot plug SFF SAS

Hot plug SFF SATA
Hot plug SFF SDD

Hot plug SFF SAS

Hot plug SFF SATA
Hot plug SFF SDD

Non-hot plug SATA SSD

Storage Controller

(1) Smart Array P410i Controller (RAID

0/1)

(1) Smart Array P410i/1GB

FBWC

Integrated SATA

iLO 3

iLO 3 and HP Insight

Foundation

iLO 3

8 (c3000)
16 (c7000)

16 (c7000)
8 (c3000)

8 (c3000)
16 (c7000)

Number of Processors
Processor core Availability
Maximum Memory
Memory Slots

Expansion Slots
Network Controller

Maximum Drive Bays

Infrastructure Management
Form Factor (fully configured)

HP Blade System Servers

HP ProLiant BL620c G7

HP ProLiant BL680c G5

Ideal for: Higher density

virtualization and scale-up
applications

Ideal for: Large Enterprise data

centers

Ideal for: The ultimate balance of

performance, memory, I/O
bandwidth for data-intensive
applications

Ideal for: I/O and memory intensive

virtualization and compute-intensive
database applications

Intel Xeon E7-2800 series

Intel Xeon E7-8800 series
Intel Xeon 6500 series
Intel Xeon 7500 series

Intel Xeon 7400 series

Intel Xeon E7-4800 series

Intel Xeon 7500 series

AMD Opteron 6100 Series

1 or 2

2 or 4

2 or 3 or 4

4 or 6 or 8 or 10

6 or 4

4 or 6 or 8 or 10

8 or 12

1TB

128GB

2TB

512 GB

32 DDR3 DIMM slots

16 DDR2 DIMM slots

64 DDR3 DIMM slots

32 DDR3 DIMM slots

(4) 10GbE NC553i FlexFabric 2

Ports

(2) 1GbE NC373i Multifunction

2 Ports
(1) 1GbE NC326i 2 Ports

(6) 10GbE NC553i FlexFabric 6 Ports

(2) 10GbE NC551i FlexFabric 2 Ports

per controller

(2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD

(2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD

(4) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD

(2) SFF SAS/SATA/SSD

Supported Drives

Hot plug SFF SAS

Hot plug SFF SATA
Hot plug SFF SDD

Hot plug SFF SAS

Hot plug SFF SATA

Hot plug SFF SAS

Hot plug SFF SATA
Hot plug SFF SDD

Hot plug SFF SAS

Hot plug SFF SATA
Hot plug SFF SDD

Storage Controller

(1) Smart Array P410i Controller

(RAID 0/1)

(1) Smart Array P400i/256MB

(1) Smart Array P410i Integrated

(1) Smart Array P410i/1GB FBWC

iLO 3

iLO 2

8 (c7000)
4 (c3000)

4 (c3000)
8 (c7000)

Processor Family

Number of Processors
Processor core Availability
Maximum Memory
Memory Slots
Expansion Slots
Network Controller

Maximum Drive Bays

Infrastructure Management
Form Factor (fully configured)

HP ProLiant BL680c G7

HP ProLiant BL685c G7

iLO 3
4 (c7000)
2 (c3000)

8 (c7000)
4 (c3000)

Dell Blade System Servers

PowerEdge M610 Blade
Server

PowerEdge M710 Blade

Server

PowerEdge M805 Blade Server

Processor
Family

Intel Xeon 550 and 5600 series

Intel Xeon 5500 and 5600 Series

Processors

AMD Opteron 2000 series processors

Number of
Processors

Processor
core
Availability

Latest quad-core or six-Core

Latest quad-core or six-Core

Up to Six-Core

Maximum
Memory

Support up to 192GB using 12 x 16GB

DIMMs

Support for up to 192GB using 12 x 16GB

DIMM

Support for up to 128GB using 16x8GB DIMMs

Memory
Slots

12 DIMM slots
1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB ECC DDR3

18 DIMM slots
1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB ECC DDR3

16 DIMM slots
1GB/2GB/4GB ECC DDR2 667/800MHz Options

I/O
Mezzanine
Card Options

1Gb &10Gb Ethernet, Fiber Channel,

Infiniband, 10Gb enhanced Ethernet &
and Converged Network Adapters

1Gb &10Gb Ethernet, Fiber Channel,

Infiniband, 10Gb enhanced Ethernet &
and Converged Network Adapters

1Gb &10Gb Ethernet, Fiber Channel, Infiniband, 10Gb enhanced Ethernet & and Converged
Network Adapters

Network
Controller

PERC H200 Modular

PERC H700 Modular (6Gb/s) with
512MB
SAS 6/iR Modular
CERC 6/i Modular
PERC 6/i Modular with 256MB batterybacked cache

PERC H200 Modular

PERC H700 Modular (6Gb/s) with 512MB
SAS 6/iR Modular
CERC 6/i Modular
PERC 6/i Modular with 256MB batterybacked cache

SAS6/IR (Raid 0/1) hardware based

CERC6/IR (Raid 0/1 w/ Cache)
PERC 6i Modular (RAID 0/1 w/ battery-backed cache)
PERC 6.2 Firmwar

Maximum
Drive Bays

Two 2.5" SAS/Solid State hotswappable drives

Four 2.5" SAS/Solid State hot-swappable

drive

Two 2.5 Hot-Swappable SAS/Solid State Drives

Supported
Drives

2.5" SAS (10K/15K): 36GB, 73GB, 146GB,

300GB
Solid State Drives (SSD): 25GB, 50GB,
100GB, 150GB
Maximum Internal Storage:
Up to 1.2TB via 4 x 300GB SAS Hard
Drive

2.5" SAS (10K/15K): 36GB, 73GB, 146GB,

300GB
Solid State Drives (SSD): 25GB, 50GB,
100GB, 150GB
Maximum Internal Storage:
Up to 1.2TB via 4 x 300GB SAS Hard Drive

Up to two Hot-Swappable Internal Drives:

2.5" SAS (10K rpm): 73GB1, 146GB1 or 300GB1
2.5" SAS (15K rpm): 36GB1, 73GB1 or 146GB1
25GB2, 50GB2 Solid State Drive (SSD)
Up to two Hot-Swappable Internal Drives:
Up to 600GB2
per blade via two 2.5" 300GB1
hotswappable SAS (10k rpm) hard drives

Other Blade Systems

Workstation Blades
Storage Blades

Questions?